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U.S. District Court Judge Denise Coate has released her decision in the Apple

E-book Price Fixing case case and she has found Apple guilty. The Mac observer

says Judge Coate on Wednesday found Apple guilty of conspiring to artificially raise the price

of e-books.

Quoting Judge Coates ruling, the plaintiffs have shown that the publisher defendants

conspired with each other to eliminate retail price competition in order to raise e-book prices and that Apple played a central role in facilitating

and executing that conspiracy. Without Apple's orchestration of that conspiracy it

would not have succeeded as it did in the spring of 2010.

While conspiring by its nature requires more than one party,

and while Coates as Apple worked with publishers, the Cupertino company is the only one found guilty in the case.

The co-conspirators, Penguin, McMillan, Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins, and Heshet Book Group were each named in the suit at one time,

though each settled out of court before the case went to trial.

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